For For readers of his writing on the liturgical year; a small Christmas booklet, now best read in Seasons of Celebration.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A short Christmas meditation on the proclamation of the Nativity, issued as a designed booklet.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural3 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A 16-page Christmas booklet of 1958 designed by Frank Kacmarcik, printed in Kentucky, with Merton's meditation on the Nativity as proclamation (kerygma). It is one of the occasional liturgical pieces of the late 1950s that fed his later book on the Church's year, Seasons of Celebration (1965).
